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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEL CHARLES H. JONES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TYPE-PLANER.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,638, dated September 11, 1883.

I Application filed November 24, 1880. (No model.)

cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Type-Planer, ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to improvements in type-planers which are adapted to be operated by hand, in contradistinction to those operated by concussion, to plane the type and take off a proof-sheet.

The object of my invention is to dispense with the use of a mallet or other tool while using a planer by providing a planer which may be easily manipulated by hand, so that the operator may utilize both his strength and weight to effectually plane the type and take a proof-sheet. I attain these objects by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in wl1ich- Figure 1 is a perspective of a type-planerv embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts of the figures of the drawings.

Arepresents a concavo-convex or segmental block of wood or other suitable material, slotted at the center of width of -its. ends to receive the ends of a handle, B, extending across it. The outer edges of the ends of the block A are provided with L-shaped grooves for receiving the ends of a strip of felt, rubber, or other elastic material, C, which forms a facing for the convex surface of the planer. The facing 0 is removably held upon the block bymeans of strips D D and screws (2 d, which strips correspond with the grooves and serve .to not only hold the elastic facing upon the block, but to lock the handle to the same, as 40 clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The construction above described enables me to remove the facing when it becomes unfit for further use, and by the-same means rigidly secure the facing and the handle to the block. 5

The handle, while serving as a means for manipulating the block, is also a longitudinal brace for the same, and enables the operator to direct his power in a vertical line through that portion of the surface of the planer which may be resting upon the type at the time the power is exerted. In other words, the .convexity of the planer enables the operator to concentrate his power successively and continuously upon the form of type which the planer is operated upon by a rocking motion of the same.

Vhat I claim, and desire to'secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. A type-planer having a concavo-convex or segmental shape, with a plane facing of elastic material on its convex side, held thereon by binding-strips, and provided with a handle placed longitudinally and centrally from end to end of said planer, substantially as and V for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the convex faced I block A, slotted and grooved as described, of the handle B, the elastic facing C, and binding-strips D D, substantially as and for the purpose described.

CHARLES H. JONES.

Vitnesses: JAMES H. CoYNE,

DANL'. K. BOUGHTON. 

